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Over the past 20 years, the United States has shut down 13 nuclear reactors, with another 19 now being decommissioned. China built 55 in the same period.
The U.S. closed 350 coal plants. China built over 600.
The U.S. shut down 11 aluminum smelters. China built 60 mega smelters and 20 smaller ones.
The U.S. closed 6 major steel mills. China built more than 200.
Leftists are now trying to do the same with AI and data centers, amplifying Chinese Communist Party propaganda so Americans self-sabotage while China grows.
Thomas Flake retweeted
In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 in the men's division.
So, little known and 203rd ranked men's player Karsten Braasch took them up on the challenge.
Braasch after a night of drinking and smoking with zero practice, destroyed Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets.
The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat.
It wasn't because Braasch was very good. He wasn't.
But, as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can't compete against.
That's the very reason we established women's sports to begin with.
To even the playing field.
That shouldn't be controversial. And you shouldn't need a biology degree to understand it.
Thomas Flake retweeted
I voted for Donald Trump because, at the time, he felt like the lesser of two options I didn’t trust.
I didn’t want to see Joe Biden or Kamala Harris continue what I believed was a system full of corruption, mismanagement, and constant tension.
Trump’s message was simple:
No new wars.
End existing conflicts.
Put America first.
That was the foundation of my support.
But looking at things now, I’m struggling to square those promises with what’s actually happening.
We’re seeing conflicts intensify instead of cool down.
Billions continue to flow overseas in aid and military support to places like Ukraine and Israel.
And at home?
People are still dealing with rising grocery bills.
Veterans are still without stable housing.
Families are still buried in debt and uncertainty.
So I keep asking the same question:
Where does America First fit into all of this?
I didn’t vote for deeper global involvement.
I voted for stability at home.
I voted for relief, not expansion.
And honestly, that’s where my frustration comes from.
Not anger for the sake of it—but disappointment in what’s changed, and the gap between what was promised and what feels real on the ground today.
I’m not sure how many others feel the same, but it’s getting harder to ignore that gap.
Thomas Flake retweeted
Protestant churches ask new converts to say the "Sinner’s Prayer" - one of the most popular altar practices today.
Show me one place in Scripture where the Apostles told people:
"Close your eyes, repeat after me, and you're saved."
You won’t find it. Instead, you'll find:
Repentance, baptism and a radical turning of life.
In Acts, nobody was handed a scripted prayer of salvation.
They were commanded to repent and be baptized (Acts 2:38).
But somehow, modern Christianity replaced that with a 30-second formula and called it salvation.
Sola Scriptura question:
Why hold tightly to a salvation method that isn't in the Bible at all?
Thomas Flake retweeted
There's something that fires me up about taking care of my wife.
Last night proved it.
I walked in from work to absolute chaos:
One kid just threw up. Another was whining and crying. Two more were fighting over a toy.
And my wife was standing in the middle of it all, completely fried.
She looked at me with exhausted eyes that said: "I can't do this anymore."
You know what happened to my energy?
It didn't drop. It multiplied.
"Go upstairs. Take a break. I've got this."
She didn't argue. She just left.
I cleaned up the puke. Broke up the fight. Calmed the crying one. Got everyone settled.
And I felt ALIVE doing it.
Here's what most guys don't understand about marriage:
Your wife doesn't need you only when things are smooth.
She needs you MOST when she's at her breaking point.
When the kids are losing it.
When dinner burned.
When she's had zero breaks all day.
When she's one more tantrum away from losing it herself.
THAT'S when you step up.
Not with resentment. Not keeping score.
But with energy. Purpose. Leadership.
"I've got you. Go rest."
That's what it means to be a husband.
Not 50/50. Not splitting duties down the middle.
It's 100/100. Both of you giving everything, especially when the other has nothing left.
When she's running on empty, I fill the tank.
When I'm running on empty, she fills mine.
That's the partnership.
Most guys see chaos at home and think: "Great, more problems after a long day."
I see my wife exhausted and think: "Time to lead."
That shift in perspective changes everything.
Your wife married a man who would protect her, provide for her, and PARTNER with her.
Don't just be a roommate managing a household.
Be the man who shows up when it's hard.
That's what she needs. That's what your kids need to see.
Show up.
Thomas Flake retweeted
Crash Course in Molecular Biology… for my fellow Christians.
🚨Everyone else can keep scrolling…🚨
Before we talk faith, let’s talk science… raw, objective molecular biology.
Every living cell depends on nine mandatory stages of DNA replication, each performed by precision-built molecular machines. These stages are not optional… not gradual… not the kind of thing random chemistry “figures out.” They are required all at once.
1… Origin recognition…
2… Helicase unwinding…
3… Single-strand stabilization…
4… Primase placement…
5… Polymerase extension with error-checking…
6… Sliding clamp loading…
7… Leading/lagging strand coordination…
8… Ligase sealing…
9… Topoisomerase tension relief…
Remove one… the system collapses. Life ends.
This is not evolution building complexity slowly. This is an integrated, interdependent replication engine that must be fully operational from the first moment a cell exists.
And here is the scientific dagger that no atheist biologist can escape…
You cannot have DNA replication without proteins.
You cannot have proteins without translation.
You cannot have translation without the ribosome.
You cannot have the ribosome without dozens of proteins that only exist after translation.
The machinery requires the machinery to build the machinery.
Abiogenesis cannot solve that circularity.
Random chemistry cannot either.
Given Earth’s timeline, the probability of a functional self-replicating cell emerging by accident is mathematically zero.
I said ZERO!
So no… life did not “just happen.”
The informational complexity of even a single cell is beyond anything the universe can produce without intention.
You hear that?
When the Word says The Almighty spoke life into existence… the molecular data agrees.
This is why believers have nothing to apologize for.
Science isn’t the enemy of faith… it is the revelation, the fingerprint of God written at nanoscopic scale.
#AStoneGroove
Thomas Flake retweeted
Why is such a false history of slavery taught in American schools?
Many act as if slavery was a uniquely American crime.
“One reason,” says author Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630), “is that a lot of black people survived here.”
He argues that much of what Americans are taught about slavery is just wrong:
Thomas Flake retweeted
This is the right attitude 🫡
Vietnamese dude nails it: "There's only about 2 million of us here in the US... we never ask anyone to bow down or speak our language."nitter.gq/EricLDaugh/status/1997…
"Why the F does this mayor in Somalian Minnesota have to speak their language, and apologize for those crooked-a** pirates?! Since when do we have to do that?"
Thomas Flake retweeted
December 6th, 1998
"Democratic" Socialist Hugo Chavez wins the Presidency in Venezuela.
"They've called me a new Mussolini or Fidel Castro. But the people know... who I really am" Chavez said.
That was the last free and fair election of Venezuela.
27 years later:
8 million refugees
80% smaller economy
1000s of political prisoners
Hundreds of thousands dead from crime and shortages
Thomas Flake retweeted
🚨 WHAT A LEADING U.S. LAW PROFESSOR JUST REVEALED 🚨
A major warning was issued this week—not by activists, not by commentators, but by one of America’s leading constitutional law professors.
He was just in Berlin, and what he described is chilling.
He said only TWO people at the World Forum were defending free speech… and the rest of the room was demanding coordinated censorship—not just across Europe, but against Americans.
And here is what he testified:
European regulators want U.S. speech controlled by EU law
Platforms are being threatened with ruinous fines
International bodies now expect enforcement against U.S. citizens
Silence is being globalised through regulation, not debate
He also stated that Hillary Clinton personally intensified this push—calling on the EU to weaponise the Digital Services Act when Elon Musk acquired Twitter.
Think about that:
A former U.S. presidential candidate urging a FOREIGN authority to pressure an American company into censoring U.S. citizens.
According to this professor, what is happening is not organic—it is strategic.
He said the Berlin gathering was “the most anti-free-speech event” he had ever attended.
He warned that:
“This is how censorship becomes internationalised.”
Not through law in Washington.
Not through court rulings.
But through transnational regulatory power overriding domestic rights.
As he put it:
“Free speech isn’t falling—it’s being dismantled.”
This is not speculation.
This is testimony—firsthand—from someone who was in the room.
Defending free expression is no longer optional—it is urgent. @JonathanTurley
Thomas Flake retweeted
In 1783, King George III asked an American painter what George Washington would do now that he had virtually won the war. The painter replied that the General intended to return to his farm in Virginia. The King was stunned. He reportedly said, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."
Throughout history, victorious generals almost always seized the throne. From Caesar to Cromwell, military success usually meant political dictatorship. The concept of voluntarily walking away from absolute power was practically unheard of.
But George Washington wasn't like other men.
By December 4, 1783, the British surrender at Yorktown was past, and peace was finally assured. Washington commanded a powerful, seasoned army that adored him. Conversely, many of his officers were unpaid and angry at the inefficient Congress. They had the guns, the manpower, and the loyalty to install a new monarch.
He could have been King George I of America.
Instead, on this day in history, Washington walked into the Long Room at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan. The room was filled with his most loyal officers—men like Henry Knox and Baron von Steuben—who had frozen with him at Valley Forge and bled with him for eight long years.
The atmosphere wasn't celebratory. It was heavy with inevitable separation. Washington, usually stoic and commercially reserved, poured a glass of wine and looked at his brothers-in-arms with visible emotion.
"With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you," he said, his voice shaking. "I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable."
He didn't order them. He didn't demand their allegiance. He hugged them.
One by one, the hardened soldiers wept openly. Washington embraced each man in silence. There was no pomp, no ceremony, and no speeches about future conquests. It was just a quiet goodbye between warriors who had done the impossible.
Immediately after leaving the tavern, Washington didn't march on Congress to demand payment or power. He rode to Annapolis, Maryland, resigned his commission, and went home to Mount Vernon to plant crops.
He did the impossible.
He refused the crown.
He trusted the people.
By stepping down, he ensured that the United States would be a republic ruled by laws, not a kingdom ruled by force. He proved that the military serves the people, not the other way around. It was the final, and perhaps greatest, victory of the Revolution.
The world watched in awe as the American Cincinnatus returned his sword to its sheath, proving that character is the strongest constitution of all.
Sources: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association / Library of Congress
Thomas Flake retweeted
192-core CPUs, modern phones that fit in your pocket and outclass a 00s supercomputer, solid-state drives that don’t die every time you sneeze on a hard disk, commercial jet engines that are quieter, safer, and burn less fuel per passenger-mile than ever, MRIs and CT scanners that can see tiny tumors that were death sentences 30 years ago, minimally invasive surgery that sends you home the same day instead of a week in the hospital, modern anesthesia like propofol that makes surgery vastly safer, vaccines and antivirals that turn once-terrifying diseases into annoyances, electric cars that need almost no maintenance and still smoke 20-year-old hyper cars off the line, gas cars that routinely go 200k+ miles without a rebuild, airbags/ABS/ESC that mean far fewer people die in crashes, LED lighting that uses a fraction of the power and lasts for years, solar panels that are orders of magnitude cheaper and more efficient than in the 80s, heat pumps that can efficiently heat and cool a house with one system, noise-cancelling headphones that turn a jet cabin into a library, 4K HDR TVs that make VHS and early cable look like a bad dream, home internet fast enough to stream lossless video to multiple rooms at once, video calling that lets grandparents see their grandkids daily instead of once a year, GPS directions that mean you almost never get truly lost anymore, translation apps that let you navigate a foreign country without speaking the language, digital cameras in phones that beat the point-and-shoots we used to carry, cheap cloud backups so a house fire doesn’t wipe out every photo you’ve ever taken, online maps and satellite imagery that make paper atlases look like cave drawings, power tools and cordless batteries that make DIY ten times easier, 3D printers that let a random person fabricate parts at home, hearing aids and cochlear implants that actually restore functional hearing, cochlear and retinal research that’s pushing toward restoring senses at all, safer childbirth with drastically lower maternal and infant mortality, and an overall life expectancy that’s longer largely because all of this stuff actually works better than what we had.
Now quit whining and get off my lawn.
It's an empirical fact that basically everything in our day to day lives has gotten worse over the years. The quality of everything -- food, clothing, entertainment, air travel, roads, traffic, infrastructure, housing, etc -- has declined in observable ways. Even newer inventions -- search engines, social media, smart phones -- have gone down hill drastically. This isn't just a random "old man yells at clouds" complaint. It's true. It's happening. The decline can be measured. Everyone sees it. Everyone feels it. Meanwhile political pundits and podcast hosts (speaking of things that are getting worse) focus on anything and everything except these practical real-life problems that actually affect our quality of life.
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I need to get something off my chest because I'm genuinely LIVID right now.
I feed a family of SIX on approximately $120-130 PER WEEK. All fresh produce. Homemade meals every single day. Chicken Caesar salad, pasta with homemade tomato sauce, chicken tacos with fresh lettuce and tomatoes, the whole nine yards. Dinners run roughly $1.25-1.75 per person. Lunches? FREE because we eat leftovers like responsible adults.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, SNAP pays a family my size around $1,421 PER MONTH. My ENTIRE food budget runs about $520-560 monthly, and we recently INCREASED our spending after refinancing. We were even tighter before that.
Let me do some math that apparently nobody in government has bothered to do. SNAP recipients in my state are getting roughly $900 MORE per month than what my family actually SPENDS feeding six people REAL FOOD. Fresh vegetables every day. Chicken prepared seven different ways throughout the week. Fresh fruit for breakfast. Homemade everything.
When did "Supplemental Nutrition ASSISTANCE Program" become "Here's Almost Triple What Middle-Class Families Budget For Groceries" Program? The word SUPPLEMENTAL means to ADD TO something existing, not to provide MORE than families who work full-time and budget carefully can afford for themselves.
My kids don't know what steak tastes like. We shop at Aldi. We plan meals around what's on sale. We make chicken hotdish on Saturday specifically so we have two days of lunches covered. That's called BUDGETING. That's called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. And apparently, that's called BEING A SUCKER because if I just quit my job and went on SNAP, my family would eat BETTER than we do now.
This isn't assistance. This is WEALTH TRANSFER disguised as compassion. Quinn's 25th Law of Liberalism nails it: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money."
The 45 Communist Goals for America read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963 included Goal #32: "Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture." Creating permanent dependency through overly generous government programs that exceed what working families provide for themselves? That's not a bug, that's the FEATURE. Keep people dependent, keep them voting for whoever promises to keep the gravy train rolling.
Look, I'm SYMPATHETIC to struggling families. I really am. I worked my way through poverty and I know what it's like to stretch every dollar until it screams. But there's a difference between a hand UP and a hand OUT that becomes a hand AROUND YOUR THROAT.
So here's my proposal, since I'm not one to complain without offering a solution:
Partner with Aldi or similar discount grocers. Create THREE standardized weekly meal plans that feed families nutritiously for what food ACTUALLY COSTS when you're not buying lobster and energy drinks with EBT cards. Each week, recipients pick their meal plan and either pick up pre-boxed ingredients with printed recipes, or get them delivered.
Here's what a REAL week looks like at my house:
MONDAY: Chicken Caesar Salad with garlic bread - $1.65/person
TUESDAY: Chicken pasta with homemade sauce, fresh broccoli and cucumber - $1.40/person
WEDNESDAY: Creamy spinach chicken with fresh side salad - $1.50/person
THURSDAY: Chicken scampi with bowties and steamed broccoli - $1.47/person
FRIDAY: Chicken taco night with fresh everything - $1.65/person
SATURDAY: Chicken hotdish (feeds Saturday dinner AND two days of lunches) - $1.75/person
SUNDAY: Roasted chicken drumsticks with fresh vegetables - $1.60/person
(I have the full breakdown if you need it)
Breakfasts are English muffins, eggs, cereal, fresh fruit. REAL FOOD.
Recipients want free food? Fine. They get A CHOICE among meal plans, not unlimited choices to buy whatever catches their eye. You know what the military dining facility gives you? WHAT THEY SERVE. You show up, eat what's prepared, and say thank you. That's how assistance works when you're not trying to create a permanent dependent class.
Here's what makes my proposal DIFFERENT from every other welfare reform idea though: it's built on EDUCATION, not dependency.
Every box comes with printed recipes and step-by-step instructions. Families aren't just getting food, they're learning HOW TO COOK. They're learning what healthy portions actually look like. They're discovering that fresh vegetables aren't scary and that chicken can be prepared a dozen ways without a deep fryer. Kids watch their parents cook real meals and pick up skills they'll carry for the rest of their lives.
More importantly, families learn HOW TO BUDGET. When you see exactly what ingredients feed a family of six for a week, you start understanding what food ACTUALLY costs. You learn that meal planning isn't some middle-class luxury, it's how responsible adults have fed families for generations. When you're ready to transition OFF the program, you have the SKILLS to do it. You know how to shop at Aldi. You know how to stretch a whole chicken across multiple meals. You know that homemade pasta sauce costs pennies compared to that jarred garbage.
THIS is how you break the cycle. Not by handing people money and hoping they figure it out, but by TEACHING them the skills that self-sufficient families have always used. The current system WANTS people to stay dependent. My system is designed to make itself OBSOLETE by creating competent, capable families who don't NEED government assistance anymore.
And here's the part that should make fiscal conservatives AND bleeding-heart liberals agree: this new SNAP system could actually SAVE MEDICAID.
Think about it. What's driving Medicaid costs through the roof? Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. These are conditions directly linked to poor diet. When SNAP recipients can buy unlimited soda, chips, candy, and processed garbage, guess who pays for the resulting health crisis? MEDICAID. Which means TAXPAYERS.
With my meal box system, families eat fresh vegetables every single day. Lean protein. Whole grains. The kinds of foods that PREVENT the chronic diseases bankrupting our healthcare system. Kids growing up on these meals don't develop childhood obesity. They don't get Type 2 diabetes at fifteen. They don't need expensive medications and hospital visits that Medicaid covers.
You want to cut Medicaid spending? Start by not CREATING the health problems Medicaid has to treat. Every dollar spent on fresh broccoli in a meal box is a dollar NOT spent on insulin, dialysis, and heart surgery twenty years from now. This isn't complicated math, but apparently nobody in government connects these dots.
The current system CREATES sick people and then PAYS to treat them. My system creates HEALTHY families who don't need either program eventually. But that would mean fewer government employees, fewer dependent voters, and fewer excuses for expanding bureaucracy. Can't have that now, can we?
This approach eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse because there's nothing PROFITABLE to sell. You can't trade meal kit boxes for cash. You can't buy cigarettes with pre-portioned chicken breasts. And here's the compassionate part nobody wants to acknowledge: it takes STRESS off these families. No more agonizing over what to buy, what to cook, how to stretch dollars they're not stretching anyway. Just pick Plan A, B, or C, get your weekly box, follow the recipes, feed your family.
But this will NEVER happen because the current system isn't DESIGNED to help people become self-sufficient. It's designed to keep them dependent, voting for whoever promises to maintain their benefits.
SNAP benefits currently average $8.2 BILLION per month nationally. That's not assistance, that's an INDUSTRY. An industry that employs social workers, bureaucrats, and politicians who need the poor to stay poor so they can keep their jobs "helping" them.
I'm a teacher in a high-need, high-risk district where ALL of my students get FREE lunches at school. And here's the kicker that should make every SNAP defender's head explode: my family is DEBT FREE except for our mortgage. Single income. Teacher's salary. Stay-at-home mom raising four kids. We're not trust fund babies. We're not secretly rich. We BUDGET. We SACRIFICE. We make CHOICES.
And we do it on LESS than what SNAP hands out.
Let me say that again for the folks in the back: a family of six living on ONE teacher's salary with a stay-at-home mom, completely debt-free, spends LESS on food than what government assistance provides. This is DOABLE on a single salary if you're not buying garbage and actually cooking real meals.
I SEE the results of this broken system every day in my classroom. These aren't bad kids or bad families. They're trapped in a system designed to keep them exactly where they are. Generation after generation, dependent on government, voting for whoever promises more, never building the skills or habits that lead to actual prosperity.
Meanwhile, my family eats fresh chicken seven nights a week on a budget HALF what SNAP provides, and somehow WE'RE the ones who are supposed to feel guilty for questioning where all that money goes.
Quinn's First Law: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." SNAP was supposed to SUPPLEMENT nutrition assistance, not REPLACE personal responsibility with government dependency. Mission accomplished in reverse, as usual.
#SNAP #FoodStamps #WasteFraudAbuse #TaxpayerMoney #PersonalResponsibility #WelfareReform #MAGA #Trump #Democrats #Liberals #Progressive #WelfareState #GovernmentDependency #BudgetingWorks #AldiForTheWin #FeedYourFamily #RealFood #TaxpayersUnite #BreakingNews #Viral #MedicaidReform #HealthyEating #TeachDontHandout
But what do I know, I'm just a taxpayer who feeds his family on half what the government hands out and has the audacity to notice the math doesn't add up.
Thomas Flake retweeted
To my fellow Muslims in America,
Let’s stop pretending.
This country took us in. It gave us safety, schools, jobs, freedom to worship, things most of our parents and grandparents never had back home. America didn’t just let us live here; it let us become something bigger.
But some of us still act like we’re just visiting. Some put the ummah first, no matter their hypocrisies. Some think sharia should ever come before the Constitution. Some make excuses the second another “Allahu Akbar” shooter opens fire on our streets. Some scream for foreign flags while American soldiers and cops are bleeding ten miles from the White House.
If that’s you, do us all a favor: go home.
Go back to the country you or your parents ran from. They obviously need you more than we do.
The rest of us; the ones who tear up at the national anthem, who thank God every day we’re American, who see every citizen here as family, aren’t going anywhere. And we’re done staying quiet while the loudest voices make the rest of us look bad.
So here it is, plain and simple:
Put America first or get the f*** out.
No third option.
- An American Muslim who bleeds red, white, and blue. ❤️🤍💙
Thomas Flake retweeted
So you want the “Nordic model” of socialism?
Fantastic. Then you also want the parts that actually make it function.
You want enormous VAT taxes that hit everyone, not just the rich.
You want no national minimum wage.
You want a huge private sector running most of the economy.
You want school vouchers and real school choice.
You want free trade.
You want strict immigration limits.
You want heavy use of fossil fuels, including oil drilling.
You want low corporate taxes.
You want privatized pensions with markets doing the heavy lifting.
You want flexible labor markets where employers can hire and fire easily.
You want little or no wealth tax.
You want strong commitments to nuclear energy.
Because that’s the actual Nordic model.
The problem is American socialists want the benefits without the structure, the spending without the discipline, and the rhetoric without the reality.
They aren’t chasing the Nordic model.
They’re chasing a fantasy where someone else pays for their dreams.
Thomas Flake retweeted
You can’t get a $1 million mortgage if you make $100K/year.
You can’t get a $75K car loan if you make $35K/year.
The fact that you can get $250K in student loans for a college degree where you’re expected to earn $40K/year is unacceptable and a complete failure of US society.
We have 18 year old kids making financial decisions that all but guarantee a lifetime of economic insecurity.
These kids do not have the capacity to understand the implications of the debt they are taking on.
The corrupt university system has successfully convinced them going to college is the “smart thing to do” and that it will all work out.
These colleges should have to take the financial hit when they load up 18 years olds with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that basic math would tell you will never be repaid.
The federal government backstopping all these student loans does nothing but enable colleges to jack up their prices every year with zero accountability.
Shameful.